https://video.echelon.pl/videos/watch/07dc5804-f0bc-468c-8683-2a40705526da 12 June 2026, some parents in Russian town of Krasnodar decided to celebrate the Day of Russia by filming their kids reciting a patriotic rhyme in front of a huge pond that was once a street and formed after a rain in the absence of working storm drainage. This video captures the essence of today's Russia perfectly - the Krasnodar authorities have for years acknowledged that around 75% of the stormwater drainage network is worn out, with most of the pipes having been laid between the 1950s and 1980s. A full modernisation is expected to cost at least 37 billion roubles, plus around 3.8 billion roubles annually for maintenance. Is that a lot? For comparison, in February and May 2026 alone, Russia fired at least 5 ‘Kinzhal’ missiles and 137 Kh-101 missiles. A single Kh-101 is estimated to cost around 13 million USD (over 1.2 billion roubles), and a ‘Kinzhal’ at $4.5–10 million per unit. That is tens of billions of roubles literally thrown into the sky, which could easily have covered the cost of bringing the dilapidated, Soviet-era storm infrastructure in such districts up to standard Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:12:06 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.foxfam.club https://peertube.foxfam.club/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://video.echelon.pl/videos/watch/07dc5804-f0bc-468c-8683-2a40705526da All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.foxfam.club/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.